Wednesday, January 18, 2017

Cardinal Nichols urges British government to welcome refugees

Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster renewed his call to the British government to welcome refugees, especially from Iraq.

“All refugees should be offered assistance,” his spokesman said on
January 10.

He added that the British government’s current approach
excluded persons fleeing the fighting in Iraq, including “Yezidi women
and girls who have escaped from being held in sexual slavery by Daesh
[ISIS].”